Lexicographical Neighbors of Prested
Literary usage of Prested
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. State Papers Relating to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, Anno 1588 by John Knox Laughton, Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"As part of the great ordnance is im- prested by warrant, so doth there want to
furnish this proportion of small shot, 100 muskets, whereof it is humbly ..."
2. A Compendious Report of the Trial of Henry Viscount Melville, Upon the by Henry Dundas Melville, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords (1806)
"... and also on divers days between the January, 1784, and the ist January, 1786,
receive from the monies im- prested to him as Treasurer or Ex-Treasurer of ..."
3. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1920)
"HUMFREY DE WESTON, one of Michael's sons, established himself at prested Hall,
... In the early years of the sixteenth century prested Hall was held by ..."
4. The Canada Law Journal by Law Society of Upper Canada, William S. Hein & Company, Canadian Bar Association (1914)
"This principle was recognized without discussion on appeal: prested v. Garner, [1911]
1 KB. 425. The defendants also say that there ..."
5. The Fight for Canada: A Sketch from the History of the Great Imperial War by William Charles Henry Wood (1906)
"Any man who volunteered was " prested," by being given a " prest" of a shilling—the
exact naval equivalent of " taking the shilling" in the army. ..."
6. A Topographical History of Surrey by Edward Wedlake Brayley (1850)
"Humphrey Weston, who resided at prested in Richard the Second's reign, was by
different wives the founder of two different families. ..."
7. State Papers: Relating to Henry VIII. by Great Britain Record Commission (1849)
"Well sayde," quod I, " and why maye not the Duke " of Cleve thinke them to be
prested for hym ? but I woll tell yow," quod I, " it ys a great shame to all ..."
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